As the families and friends of Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius continued
to deal with the trauma of a tragedy in South Africa, the sense of
bewilderment spread to Birmingham, where some of the world’s best athletes
gathered for the British Grand Prix. The shock was palpable.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the two-times Olympic 100 metres champion, found out
that Oscar Pistorius was facing a murder charge only when someone checked
her passport after flying in from Jamaica. Mo Farah, the double Olympic
distance king newly arrived from Kenya, also struggled to comprehend the
news.